WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Covino Can Speak On It 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.760 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:08.520 Sports Radio. I love Dan Patrick, I love camdo Rich. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.800 What's up, buddies? How are you? Oh, it's good to 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.760 be here, so good to be back, so good to 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.520 see Joel. He's on the phones with Danny G. Eight 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.079 seven seven ninety nine on Fox At Covino and Rich 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.800 CNR on FSR. If you're new to our show, we're 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.120 on every day, but when they give us the opportunity 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.280 to step up and feeling for the great Dan Patrick, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.640 I say yes, sometimes I don't feel one hundred, that's 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.440 just life. But are you Are you feeling like Cavino though? 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.159 Because Zion said he's not feeling like Zion. Actually he 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.680 said more than that, So there's another question. We're gonna 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.520 post here again. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Life, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.680 Mercedes Been Studio and I just learned. Discover credit cards 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.400 do something pretty awesome. At the end of your first year, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.720 they automatically double all the cash back you've earned. That's right, 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.600 everything you earned doubled. The cash back from trip restaurants 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.400 all doubled. Seriously, they'll see terms. Check it out for 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:08.480 yourself at discover dot com. Slash Match Is it selfish 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.240 or selfless? There's a lot of questions based on what 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.560 he said, and what he said was kind of vague. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.520 He didn't say it's mental health. We're just speculating based 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.720 on what he said. He says, I understand the magnitude 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.479 of these games. I don't want to be out there 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.360 hesitating or doing something that may affect my team in 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:37.759 a bad way. So that sounds selfless or is it selfish? 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.560 I don't know. I Will says paid a lot to 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.160 get out there, even when he's not feeling one hundred 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.200 and he says, I it's a matter of when I 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.440 feel like Zion because he's physically fine. So we can 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.040 only speculate. So let's be fair. We're speculating he doesn't 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.880 feel like Zion. Well what does that mean? Guess what? 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.440 You know? Like I said, there's a lot of us 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.800 out there that just don't feel like ourselves sometimes and 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.960 we push it forward and you may say, and it's 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.440 fair to say, well, we don't have that sort of 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.600 pressure situation now he's dealing with. Well, that's why he's 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.600 paid that kind of money. And you know, we're just 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.320 trying to be fair and trying to speculate. What do 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.400 you think about it? It's a little deflating from a 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.680 fan's perspective. Your team's in it and your best guy's 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.840 not out there and he's physically fine. That's kind of 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.280 a tough one to swallow, to be honest. Yeah, but 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.480 I mean it sounds rude because if it is a 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.720 mental health thing, but a little rude, you know, absolutely, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.840 But can you start using the word bust if he's 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.680 just not playing, whether it's physical or mental, of Zion's 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.040 just not going to be out there. Could you start 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.400 saying the whole talk of him being a once a 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.160 generation talent. Joel, you were saying that when he plays, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.920 he's lights out. I saw him playing in Minnesota. He's 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.760 phenomenal when he's on the court. Get him on the court. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.240 When he first came to the league, I posted, go 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.880 see this guy while he's healthy, because the heavy set 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.960 guys who come in on the knees, they don't last. Yeah, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.720 and a guy said, oh no, he's one of a kind. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.760 He's he's this, he's whooped the whoop. Well, he is 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.799 what he is. He's a big dude. Remember when he 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.040 broke his sneakers in college yea Richard saying he went 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.800 from busting through his sneakers to straight up bust because 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.919 I don't believe he's a bust because I don't think 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.560 so they moved him to the point guard like point forward, 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.760 and my goodness, he dribbles it, he dances, he dances, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.280 he drives, he rebounds it, he puts it in. Now. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.440 I don't know about him defensively, but and he probably 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.640 eats boned in wings. He probably does. He's a man, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.120 but could he get out on the court. Your phone calls, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.400 let's go to your feedback, and I'm reading what we 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.000 got on Twitter and Instagram, and a lot of people 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.960 are saying, like, first of all, a lot of feedback 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.120 on the wings people said, there's no sham in the bonus. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.120 I'll tell you what the knife Come on, I'm having 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.320 some regrets right now because my schedules a little off. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.400 My tummy, my bellies rummy. You've got feeling like Colvina. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.360 I'm not, but I'm here and I'm pushing through. You 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.040 got nuggies in your tummy? Yeah, I'm like, oh man, 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.960 maybe maybe, maybe maybe twelve nuggies was a bad choice, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.359 Like yeah, because I definitely picked on some other some 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.680 other nuggies. Oh you mixed them? Yeah, oh yeah, oh 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.720 yeah at Honey Barbecue and I had the mango habanetto. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.120 So anyway, let's go to the phone. Let's go to 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.279 the phone. I do. I got the bubble guts. But 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.240 here I'm here. That's what That's what counts. Chucky. What's up, chucking? Ohio? 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.280 How are you, budd Hey? I just want to apologize 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.200 to you guys before I make my point. I'm just 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.760 not with it today, you know what I mean, not 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.520 feeling it the same. Let me tell you something I've 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.920 only I'm been in broadcasting for a long time, never 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.920 made a lot of money. Imagine that. I've never made 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.000 more than thirty grand a year. And I'm tired of 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.960 hearing these guys wine. Look and they even want me 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.760 to pay to watch them on TV. Give me a break. Yeah, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.880 I know. It's just we dance around it. We're so 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:17.000 we we handle these situations so delicately because nobody wants 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.880 to say the wrong thing, you know, Like like Rich 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.520 alluded to before, I've had pan attacks where I thought 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.720 I was dying. I remember going to Comino's house once 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.920 his girlfriend called me and she's like, you might want 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.600 to swing by. I don't know what's wrong with him. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.240 I get there and Comino was alone. Yeah, I was 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.440 home alone. I thought I was dying. Comino's girlfriend was 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.080 out of town. She's like, can you go check on him? 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:40.160 And like, check on him? Dude, I needed an emergency situation. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.000 I had friends there. I had to call the ambulance. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.800 I was like, what's going on? I thought. I was like, 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.600 guess what? Man? I didn't want to, but I went 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.279 to work the next day. And I'm not saying that 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 everybody needs to be like me. Everyone handles things different. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.159 But it's not like he got run over by a snowflow. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.960 Yeah exactly. No. No, here's the thing. Here's what I 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.920 was gonna say. I understan then that people need a 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.440 time out. I do, and I understand the feeling of 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.719 I don't know if I'm really going to add to it, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.200 because you know, Zion said that he doesn't want to 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.520 sort of get in the way or be hesitating or 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.719 or not contributing in a way that affects the team, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.280 which sounds selfless. And I commend that I feel that 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.159 way if I'm not feeling a hundred and my friends 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.400 are like, Yo, come on, we're hanging out tonight, or 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.560 we're partying, or we're having to get together. I feel like, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.880 you know what, man, maybe I'll sit this out because 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.680 I don't feel like I could add to the full selfishly. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.880 We just want to see Zion out there. Yeah, your 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.000 friends want you out, but but listen to this. There's 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.520 a difference between me sitting out on a fun night 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.720 out because I feel the way Zion feels and not 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.920 going to work. Like we have to realize this is 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.400 his job. It is it's his job, and I understand 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.960 that there are times you need days off and you 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.200 need personal days. I get it. But this isn't just 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.040 some regular game. And I understand it is a game, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.600 but they're paid a lot of money for this game. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:09.720 This is a big game. Yeah, what about Naomi Osaka? 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.960 What about Simone Biles? There have been a lot of 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.440 top tier athletes that have had to pull themselves out 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.960 of a competition or or sit one out. Kevin Love 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.720 I said before he was one of the first to 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.000 talk about is very sensitive to this now, as they 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.720 should be. That's right that the keyword is now. Because 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.760 a Piston fan, I was in Detroit. Scottie Pippen came 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.600 to town with Michael Jordans, and we on the screets 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.200 heard that scott he's not playing. He has a headache. Yeah, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:41.640 and that's a fan. You don't have the right to 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.200 be disappointed. I think you. Oh no, I was like, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.880 he's soft. Yeah, oh yeah, I know. And that mentality 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.760 now is a bit frowned upon. So we're being as 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.240 sensitive as possible. And I'm just saying, as as a fan, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.680 he didn't want to smoke. You can't help but say, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.480 oh man, come on, we want to see Zion out 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.640 there again. A seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Let's 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.720 talk to bretton Arizona, Cavino, Rich Spot, Joel, Danny g 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.119 It's Fox Sports Radio. We're in for Dan Patrick. Good morning, guys. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.880 I absolutely love you guys in the afternoon. Thank you 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.360 for taking over. It's the only time that I don't 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.400 get to have to slip over to the mother Ship 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.640 because cal turned and the cople suck. So you guys 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.880 brought doing a great job. The problem is, don't go 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.720 soft on sweet kids. We raised generations of trophy kids 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.000 and this whole thing of I don't feel like planks 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.800 of own Biles took a spot from somebody who worked 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.320 their ass off the kind to the Olympics, and she 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.920 took it just so that she could get the publicity. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.640 And then she has one bad day in quits. Stop baby, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.959 and these kids, you know, a Breton bird on a 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.960 zion and free to be a man. You make me 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.679 think so many things. Because we're trying to be sensitive, right, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.079 because it's a different time, we are more understanding than ever. Right. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.960 We all admit that we're never a hundred. I'm never 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.520 a hundred, and I pushed through it. It's like we 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.160 lost that. Like who's in his corner saying, Zion, you're 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.720 the man. Get out there and show them what happened 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.319 to the Show them you're a tiger. Show them what 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.560 you can do. Eat some frosted flakes. That's the solution. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.040 I'll let me, let me tiger. I'm gonna dm Zion 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.040 right now. Tryon. Do you ever think about maybe a 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.840 little frost of flakes this morning? You'll be ready to 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.520 go tonight. There is still tomorrow, right, there is no tomorrow. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.000 There is no tomorrow. Where's his apollo Creed? I'm so 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.440 torn on this. I'm torn like Creed. Who else is torn? 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.280 Nat I'm born. People are saying like that would be 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.679 the wrong approach, but sometimes in life you need that nudge. Dude. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.440 There's been times in life where I'm like, I don't 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.120 want to go to work, or I don't want to 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.600 go to the gym, or I don't want to do anything, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.520 and then someone and usually that's my own my own 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.240 guilty conscience or my own voice, but someone will be like, dude, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.160 get out there, because that's when you gotta push it. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.840 I know, and I understand. I'm I'm sympathetic that Zion 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.240 doesn't feel like Zion, but he needs to get out 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.880 there and play. This is his team needs him. This 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.199 is a tough subject, you guys. You know everything. I'm 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.839 coming from a fan perspective. I am and a guy 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.960 who who does deal with a lot of anxiety and 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.079 things like that, to the point where I feel like 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.920 I'm dying Joe. If he doesn't play and they lose, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.600 not the end of the world. Can he go on 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.800 vacation with you guys, or are you gonna look at 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.640 him in the side. I say, you know what, you 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.000 need to stay behind and feel like Zion. You know, 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.840 what I would say, how old is Zion? How old 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:39.760 is he? He's a young man, Zion age twenty young 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.520 young man, twenty He started young? Remember that? Yeah, I know, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.680 he's twenty two, twenty two, all right, Now, that puts 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.360 things in perspective, right, twenty two years old. Let's just 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.439 say already something most people are wrapping up college. He's 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.400 a young man. I'm forty something. With love, I would 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.439 respect this guy. And this guy is unbelievable. Like Joel said, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.360 he's a once in a lifetime kind of guy from 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.800 a big brother perspective. Wouldn't you just give him that 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.640 tough love and be like, yeah, dude, but but I 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.440 gotta tell you with the number one you know, right, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.000 You know when we learn things throughout life, this is 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.000 what what do you know? With respect? I think this 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.000 guy's one of the greats. The same way, when you're 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.360 arguing with a woman, you never tell their calm down. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.600 You learn that when someone's dealing with mental health stuff 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.160 or anxiety, the word you can't be like hey man, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.559 cheer up. Doesn't work that way. I mean, I mean, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.959 I don't you know, I don't want to. I'm not 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.680 trying to sound soft, but I'm not trying to sound 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.839 too old school. I want him out there, but that's 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.360 a selfish fan perspective. But this guy is saying, I'm 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.000 not feeling like Zion to be like, come on, man, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.440 get out there. It's like telling someone that's depressed or 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.000 has anxiety just forget about it. Becavigno's not letting him 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.160 go in the casing with It's not well, no, I'm 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.560 not come but I'm gonna give him some some tough love. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.400 And for some reason we as a society or allergic 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.200 to that nowadays. Right, you just don't want to nudge somebody. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.199 Sometimes people need a nudge. I'm a guy that needs 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.320 a nudge, you know. Not always let me. Let me 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 be very honest with you, Joel. A lot of times 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:06.720 the boss will hit us up and they'll say, hey, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.360 do you want to filing for Dan Patrick and do 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.840 the Dan Patrick hatrick? And I'm like, wait a second, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.240 I gotta wake up at what time for thirty am? 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.080 And it co like, oh, that's a lot of pressure 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.520 and it can be hit me up and I say 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.640 to say, says show them your tiger, show um what 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 you can do. Rich gives me that little nudge like, yo, man, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.080 show the world who you are. Man up and be 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.240 the man. And I'm like, you know what, man, thanks, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.800 you're right. I mean, I you think I want to 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.439 get up at four thirty all the time. It is 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.160 an honor. I love Seattle. I have to remind him. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.400 I need that. We get to see Joel Dan Patrick 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.600 has the hugest audience ye sports talk radio. And I 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.360 tell him stop it, stop me, stop your silliness. We're going, Yes, Shapira, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.800 we're filling it Wednesday Thursday. Yeah, yeah, it coman. I 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.440 was like, you're right, bro, And I know. And it 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.280 just depends on what mood I'm in, right, because I'm 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.200 a moody guy. That's why I feel like I am 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.959 an okay guy to speak on behalf of this a 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.840 little bit. I'm a moody dude. Sometimes I wake up 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.600 and I'm like, I don't you know they call me. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.840 Remember the character's pig will and pig won't in your 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.559 children's books, pig Willing. I'm pig won't. I don't want 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.280 to do anything. I don't want to get it at bed. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.080 Sometimes I don't want to go out sometimes, you know, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.760 but you push through it and sometimes you say that 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.760 nuts based on our relationship, Should I be the one 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.240 to hit up Zione? I think a guy like Lebron, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.600 you know, hey, man, what's going on? You're you're feeling 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.320 one hundred? Yeah? Man, I feel great, But I just 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.679 don't feel like Zion Lebron or someone he admired, mentor 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.760 some mentors. But I'll be like, hey, man, like you 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.760 gotta realize a lot of us feel that way. And 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.079 we just went out there, and you know what, when 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.880 we're out there on the court goes away. You know 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.000 how it is. You're the man Zion, go out there 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.920 and perform. The fans need you, the team needs you 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.720 do your thing. Even if even if you don't perform 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.400 at a hundred, you're seventy percent, You're sixty percent is 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.400 better than most and that's going to motivate the team. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.520 But don't you think most Laker fans, at least the 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.120 ones that I talk to, don't. Don't you feel like 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.240 they think Lebron went to a d and had that 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.520 big brother talk with him. Yeah, some people need that. Man. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.400 Zion needs that. Again, based on what we know, right, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.120 we don't know everything. We don't really even with another 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.320 quote by the way I'm looking at all the TV's 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:22.080 here skip and Channon quote zion I can't escape what 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.680 the world thinks and what people's opinions are. So I 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.720 see that quote, and if I'm trying to sympathize, I'm 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.600 trying to tidle together. I feel like he's a young 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.960 man that is trying to balance everyone's opinion. Social media, 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.000 life pressures, yeah we can, mental health and physical health. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.920 He's been honored all. You know, the guy's dealt with 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:47.680 a lot, but again, once in a lifetime talent and yeah, listen, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.840 they're dealing with stuff other generations. Michael Jackson talked about that, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.480 how he couldn't sleep because of the people's expectation and 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.560 all he had to deliver. He just had to start, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.880 you know what. And Michael Jackson oddly enough to al 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.240 know he didn't have to deal with Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.400 It's uh. I can only imagine, you know, you see 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.840 it a lot with teenagers and how there's there's a 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.720 lot of issues with bullying and mental health online, and 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.840 you know, people worry about what people are putting on 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.320 Twitter and Instagram and TikTok way too much. He's not 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.920 immune because he's Zion. He's twenty two. This guy grew 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.960 up in a world of social media. So when I 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.960 see a quote like I can't escape what the world thinks. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.000 This is a guy like we joke about Kevin Durank 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.680 getting all his emotions and in his feelings about social media. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.480 Maybe Zions the type of guy that's like, yo, everywhere 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.520 I look social media, real life, there's a pressure for 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.760 me to be Zion and I'm not feeling like something. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.240 You know, Hold on a second, I gotta call my 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.000 mortgage company because I don't feel like paying my mortgage. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.400 It's too much pressure. Yeah, I mean, look, this is 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.160 at the end of the day, there is a lot 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.200 of pressure, but it's also his job. And you gotta realize, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.400 Kavino and Rich we're not former athletes. We're just fans. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.080 So I mean, I'm a former athlete in my mind. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.080 I mean, do you how many literally home run? Yeah? Literally? 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.520 I did have twenty seven Little league home runs. That's 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.960 because you were five ten when you were twelve, but 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.200 having grown since. But that doesn't change the facts. But 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.640 you know, from a selfish fan perspective, we want to 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.200 see him. Yeah, how we're just being honest, how could 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.680 you not feel that way. It's it's coming from our selfish, 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.680 selfish perspective of just want to see the best out there. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.200 You know, if he's physically able, then then I'd like 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.520 to see that. We'll go to your your feedback and phones. Dude, 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.560 We'll think about it, even forget mentally physically, even when 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.240 guys are banged up, We're like, yeah, yeah, but I 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.640 get him back out there. We're just selfish fans that 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.440 want to see these stars and people on on the 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.440 biggest stage. I'm at I'm a Mets fan, Jael. In 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.200 my mind, I'm like, come on, Edwin Diaz. I know 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.440 you blew out your knee in the World Baseball Classic. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.200 Get the rehab going. We need your back on the 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.800 mound comes September October. I'm not considering his feelings in health. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.960 I'm a dumb fan that's like, get him back out there. Though. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.640 If you're gonna sit out, then don't impress me in 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.720 warm ups. Don't come out there with three sixties and 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.439 through the legs and laughing and joke Joel. I think he, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.920 like I said, I respect his honesty. I feel like 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.760 he almost gave us too much information. I'd feel a 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.600 lot better just hearing that he just doesn't feel Sometimes 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.360 the honest answer. Sometimes the honest answer, does you know good? 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.200 It's like when you ever have someone be like, why 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.360 did you we break up? Do you really want to know? Yeah, 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.000 I'd rather him line I mean and say, you know, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.320 he uh, don't wanna tell you what's wrong with you. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.360 I'm not gonna tell you what's wrong with you. I'm 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.560 just kidding back here with me, you know, always to 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.399 me on how rich could compare everything to relationships? Is 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.280 the one who has the girlfriend Joe Joe? Every time 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.760 you we've all been dumped. Right, Do you want to 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.800 know the reason why every girl in your life has 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.000 ever said like, yeah, I'm done with you? He has haletosis? Yeah, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.159 you don't want to hear something about your breath or 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.520 so what's in your pants? You don't want to Hea, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.600 don't want to hear the reasons. Brandon and Georgia, You's swings. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.880 I couldn't take it. Brandon, Georgia, what's up, buddy? First off, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.639 I'm eating boneless wings. I'm dunking them in ranch until 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.000 my stomics can't can't fit them anymore. You know what 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.920 let's do it. What's up? Georgia two on Zion man, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.680 I just like we gotta quit, baby, and folks, man, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.200 this is I don't think it's selfish for fans want 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.000 him to play. If it wasn't for the fans, that 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.560 team wouldn't even exist. Okay, I mean that is true. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.560 Our own my own business. If I get a big 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.480 client come in saying hey, I want you to quote 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.640 my insurance, I can't say I'm not feeling it if 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.240 I push through. When I do it, well, guess what, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.320 it's gonna feel that much better when I land that account. Well, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.000 Brandon and I agree with you, right, But it poses 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.400 the question how do we find that balance? Though? Then? 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.600 How do we yeah, what's it? What's a balance between 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.200 being too soft and being too old school? Because we 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.840 don't want to like downplay these things. We've come a 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.280 long way. We've learned a lot about mental health or 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:54.560 or being sympathetic to people not feeling you know what 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.159 it is. You don't want to get the approach. You 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.120 don't want to take the mentality of like, come on, man, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.200 tough enough, get out there. That's too old school. But 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.920 you know it's too new school. Joe saying, oh, you're 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.600 not feeling it, don't or you don't have to play 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.520 it like, there's gotta be a balance between babying and 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.359 being too changing of the guard. When Bobby Knight? When 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.560 when finally we got the Bobby Knights. Yeah, you can't 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.840 throw chairs with people anymore, Joe, you can't come to 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.760 Bobby Knight talking about Zion doesn't feel like Zion. Yeah, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.000 it's it's a it's a really like, where's the balance 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.639 between old school and new school? You don't want to 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.440 be Yeah, you don't. You don't want to be like insensitive, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:32.560 but you also don't want to be like but that man. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.479 You don't want to their story because this isn't just 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.800 a regular season game. Yeah, let let's take one more 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.919 quickie now. But Steve, you're on a Key West So 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:45.160 what's out Steve? Well, you guys are finally, finally somebody 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:50.320 has hit on the problem. I've been bipolar all my life. Okay, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.320 I'm sixty one years old. I work nuclear power plants 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.680 all my life. I said I was going to retire 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.560 in Key West. I'm from Crystal River, Florida, where Mike 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.359 camp and went to high school. Okay, you're familiar with 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.000 my camp at guy signed a big deal with that 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.600